Got to admit, the price and the fact it's region locked are massive bug bears with me, up to the point that it's gone from a launch day purchase to a wait and see. Unless the price becomes more reasonable after a drop, I don't think I'll be investing anymore.

£40 RRP for a game and £230 the average price for the console is just ridiculous.

As for the screen, in 2D mode the colors stand out and it's pretty crisp, but even a slight nudge on the 3D depth slider makes for a whole different experience. The viewing angle, which we actually commend during its two-dimensional presentation, drops to single-degree acceptability when the parallax display is put to use -- moving even just a little would cause the screen the flicker and the 3D effect to be lost or too muddled to enjoy. Expect to keep your arms locked in place while playing, and we'd advise against anyone trying to look over your shoulder to follow along. What's more, there's no instruction or guidance on how to adjust the depth slider for your eyes, and each game requires a seemingly different setting, so you end up fiddling with it a lot -- to what can be quite painful results. Our own Nilay Patel has had a headache since this morning's playing session, as has columnist-at-large Michael Gartenberg. We'd suggest Nintendo require each game to pop up a calibration screen with some saved settings that disable the slider -- otherwise we can see a lot of players just disabling 3D entirely.

At that price, I think I'll definitely be waiting until the regular DS is dead before I even consider buying a 3DS. To be honest I wouldn't pay that much for something like a 360/PS3, let alone a handheld.

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SF aside I'd appreciate a new hand held as I currently get the train to work ... but the few games I have on the DS do me for now. This is looking nice, but I think I'll pick up the 3DSi Light ... that you know is coming.

On Thursday in Westfield shopping centre they had an event for 3DS. I managed to play about 5 of the games as well as the Augmented reality game that comes built in with it.

The 3D element was much better than I expected although on one or 2 of the games my eyes hurt a bit after a while. The best effect was on Pilotwings, very impressive. Also the AR game was almost breathtaking.

Im very tempted to treat myself. Think there is a Mario Kart game coming in a few months too

I Was interested to see in the news the other day that they are going to be slashing the price by around a third clicky. Not surprising I guess, what with the new PSP pricing tactics. I was a bit suspicious when I started seeing all the the 3DS games slashed in price everywhere...

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I think it's just a case of it being too expensive in comparison to a home console. As much as I want a 3DS, there's no way I'd have paid launch price. Especially when you could get a PS3 or 360 for around the same price.

I've not seen anything. The price drop made this pop up on my radar again ... yet the biggest games to be released for this seem to be N64 remakes. Which I'm sure will be great ... but I played those to death at the time. I only had an N64 at that point and just battered those games.

Way too soon for me to relive them. In fact scrap that I HAVE relived them countless times. All I have to do is boot up my N64 ... or GC for Zelda and I played Mario 64 on the DS ... quite liked the Star Fox game on the DS too ... so yeah ...